#REVIEW: “KING RICHARD”
By Mr. Will Wong
Make no mistake, KING RICHARD isn't just a Tennis movie. Carried by a formidable performance from Will Smith as Richard Williams, father and coach to eventual Tennis icons Venus and Serena Williams, the Drama from Director Reinaldo Marcus Green (Monsters and Men) is filled with heart and surely is a force to be reckoned with as we enter Awards Season.
The Film traces Richard Williams' hustle, balancing raising five daughters together with wife Oracene (Aunjanue Ellis) in ...
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#REVIEW: “FINCH”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
The Earth has been ravaged and humanity is all but extinct, searching for scraps and trying desperately to stay alive in a scorching desert wasteland. Wanting to keep his dog Goodyear safe, brilliant robotics engineer Finch (Tom Hanks) creates a robot, who later names himself Jeff (voiced by Caleb Landry Jones), to protect him should anything bad happen. When the trio are forced to take a dangerous journey West, Jeff must learn what it means to be ...
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#REVIEW: MARVEL STUDIOS’ “ETERNALS”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Academy Award winner Chloé Zhao’s back with another knockout hit, Eternals. The Eternals are a race of immortal beings with superhuman powers. They’ve secretly lived on Earth for thousands of years battling Deviants, ruthless creatures determined to harm humanity. The Eternals won this battle centuries ago and have since separated to live among humans. However, when Sersi (Gemma Chan) encounters a Deviant in London she reunites her family to ...
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#REVIEW: “DON’T BREATHE 2”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Years after the events of 2016’s Don’t Breathe, we catch up with The Blind Man (Stephen Lang) hiding in an isolated cabin with young girl Phoenix (Madelyn Grace). He has been raising and training her as his own ever since finding her left for dead after a house fire. When a group of men comes to kidnap Phoenix, The Blind Man must do what he has to in order to save her.
Yes, you read that correctly – the villainous Blind Man has turned a new leaf ...
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#REVIEW: “ANTLERS”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Director Scott Cooper teams-up with Producer Guillermo del Toro to make a strong entry to the Monster genre.
Julia (Keri Russell) returns to her small Oregon town moving into her childhood home with her brother, local sheriff Paul (Jesse Plemons). While teaching at the local school she notices young student Lucas (Jeremy T. Thomas) is showing signs of abuse. As a prior child of abuse herself, she watches out for Lucas. However, she soon finds out ...
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#REVIEW: “THE HARDER THEY FALL”
By Mr. Will Wong
Jeymes Samuel (who happens to be Singer-Songwriter Seal's brother), makes his a stunning directorial debut in THE HARDER THEY FALL, a slickly-stylized Western Action-Character Drama full of swagger and confidence.
The Film centers on Nat Love (Jonathan Majors) whom as a young boy sees his parents killed and his face disfigured after his father's rival gang arrive at their home with an agenda to kill. He devotes his life to exacting revenge against this gang, led by Rufus ...
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#REVIEW: “DUNE”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) is heir to the throne of House Atreides, currently led by his father Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac), who has just been given control of the planet Arrakis and its valuable spice operations. While Paul continues to have prophetic visions involving a young woman named Chani (Zendaya) and her Indigenous Fremen people, the competing House Harkonnen sets out to destroy House Atreides and gain control of spice for ...
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#REVIEW: “THE FRENCH DISPATCH”
Review by Nicholas Porteous for Mr. Will Wong
With The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson proves once again: it IS in fact possible to be even more Wes Andersony. Even more absurdly dry, niche, visually exacting, you name it! He's got MORE of it. The Anthology film is composed of three medium-sized helpings bookended by a smaller entrée and a tiny dessert. Like most latter Wes Andersons, for better and worse, it is a labyrinth of whimsy more intricate and insane than any cuckoo clock.
Inevitably, ...
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#REVIEW: “HALLOWEEN KILLS”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) believes she has burned Michael Myers (Nick Castle/James Jude Courtney) alive, effectively ending his decades-long reign of terror. She is taken to hospital to have her battle wounds treated, while the fire department attempts to put out the fire at her compound. Unbeknownst to them however, Myers is alive and ready to kill anything that stands in his way.
I absolutely adored Co-Writer/Director David Gordon Green’s ...
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#REVIEW: “THE LAST DUEL”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
The Last Duel is an energized medieval battle and a thought-provoking drama about the true story of Lady Marguerite (Jodie Comer), who was married off to knight Jean de Carrouges (Matt Damon). One day, her husband’s friend Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver), a squire in court, viciously rapes her. When she accuses her attacker, Carrouges brings it to the attention of King Henry VI (Alex Lawther). The King calls for a trial by combat. The duel to the ...
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